Item Info

Title:

General Neal Dow on the American War and slavery.

Date:

May 15, 1863

Description:

This is a copy of a letter (original written in New Orleans on May 15, 1863) by General Neal Dow to Professor Newman, regarding slaves, slavery, and the American Civil War. Rev. Dr. Christopher Newman Hall (1816 -1902) was one of the most celebrated nineteenth century English Nonconformist divines. He supported Abraham Lincoln and abolition of slavery during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Union and Emancipation Society (Manchester, England). Neal Dow (1804-1897), nicknamed the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", was mayor of Portland, Maine, as well as a General in the Union Army during the Civil War. He sponsored the "Maine law of 1851", which prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor.